I've just finished my dinner, and I'm moving on to the crepe which dad improvised on. I have a second serving of wine to drink later, probably my last glass till I'm 18. (edit: no it wasn't the last. I had another glass during lunch on Saturday) We were huddling around the TV just now because there was breaking news that Tiger Woods was involved in a car accident. I'm so proud of myelf because I was watching CNN when the news first broke. Yea simple things make me happy..

Asterix!

The following pictures are quite funny. These are famous works which were re-interpreted into "Asterix" forms

We walked around the Latin Quarters this morning, which is the area near our hotel. We saw so many things but I'm really too tired to type them out. One of the interesting places was a building with the tombs of famous people such as Marie Curie. We were walking aroud when we suddenly saw some posters outside the museum of middle ages. There was an Asterix exhibition inside! The Chans are supporters of Asterix, and we're headed by dad, who spent his childhood reading Asterix comics. So we quickly rushed back to the hotel to put down the stuff we bought, and then walked over to the museum. It was very fascinating because I got to see the original mnuscripts, texts and drawing by the creators. The down side was that the original language of Asterix comics is French, so I couldn't read them.

Eating a chocolate crepe

One of the stalls selling food

The rest of the day was mainly spent shopping at large departmental stores. There was a lot of walking and shopping to do. In the evening, we went to the Christmas night market (the Parisian version of a pasar malam) for the third time. The main differences are that this market sells better (more valuable) products, it's not hot and stuffy, and the stalls are very nicely decorated (not some messy tentage).

People who like photography like dad go all out to take good pictures. Just today, dad made mom and I cross the road halfway just to take a picture of the night market. The other enthusiastic photographers clamoured onto the narrow road divider, oblivious to the heavy traffic, and started snapping the symmetrical nice-ness of the Arch of Triumph and the night market. Not long ago, I took a night walk (at least 2 km, in cold weather) with dad to accompany him while he took a picture of the Notre-dame's night time light-up.

We'll be leaving Paris tomorrow afternoon (Saturday) and I'll reach Singapore on Sunday afternoon.

Since this'll be my last post here, I'll sum up. In short, I really admire how Parisians are able to retain their rich history and culture (old buildings, French cuisine) whilst keeping up with the latest fashion (I'm sure we know) and technology.